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cricketry

The act of being a cricket. Doing cricket-like things.
When people play with puppets, it's called puppetry, when crickets build castles or get together to rub their feet together to chirp, it's called cricketry. Not to be confused with trickery.
by cdafox June 7, 2010
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Cricketcore

A genre of music in where the vocalist impersonates a cricket being brutally tortured.
Crepitation is an awesome cricketcore band!
by AaronXAttack March 21, 2010
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Cricket ball throw away

A unit of distance measurement meaning, not very far.
While looking at Google maps

"How far away from the nightlife are way staying in Palma de Mallorca?"

"Oh, just a cricket ball throw away!"
by Lollen July 2, 2018
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Cricker

A term that derived in Kirksville, Missouri, this was an actual place. My father remembers seeing a 1950's map displayed in the City Hall that labeled the creek ('crick') where the city sewer discharged as 'Shit Creek (Crick)'. This creek was located at the bottom of Osteopathy Hill just north of the hospital and drained generally westward into 'the holler'. Today this is a fairly upscale area but back then it was mostly unoccupied land except by the 5 poorest families in Kirksville. Most of these families lived in tarpaper shacks with galvanized tin roofs and dirt floors. So in the beginning it was an actual location. Example- "I saw a huge deer at Shit Crick the other night when we were out riding around and drinking beer." Later, it referred to those living in the vicinity. Example- "Yeah, I saw that So-and-So Cricker the other night at the Red Angus." It was soon shortened to just 'cricker'.

By the mid 60's/ early 70's, it was a very derogatory term. It was about the absolute worst insult one could use. It meant a low-down, worthless bum, worse than white-trash. A liar, thief, a druggie. An unprincipled, unreliable, irresponsible person who was uneducated and unwilling to better themselves.

This term was not known widely outside of Kirksville until sometime around 1990. In Memphis in the early 90's when I was apologizing for being filthy from the farm and "looking like a cricker". No one knew what it meant unless they had been employed or lived in Kirksville.
"I blew a tire at Shit Crick the other night." "You are such a Cricker! Why don't you get a job?" "We went to a party at Circle Drive the other night. You know- down in the Holler past Shit Crick." "You lost your license? How are you gonna get to work? I guess you're up Shit Crick now, huh?"
by KVTigers88 September 25, 2020
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pickle cricket

An African American youth that utilizes a pickle bucket as a drum.
I was trying to enjoy the ball game, but the pickle crickets kept making too much noise.
by Curt ligot March 4, 2008
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Sniff Cricket

A game to be played by lads on a night out where they attempt to sniff parts of the female anatomy without being rumbled.

1 run is awarded for sniffing a girls hair.
2 runs are awarded for sniffing a girls ass.
4 runs are awarded for chewing a girls hair.
6 runs are awarded for touching a girls asscrack with your nose and sniffing.

You are declared out if you get rumbled e.g slapped in the face.

LAD with the most runs at the end of the night wins the sniff cricket trophy.
Benedict: (entering nightclub/bar) Right lads lets start a game of sniff cricket.

Warren: Woaaa did you see Geoffrey go straight for the six.

Geoffrey: I'll be back in a minute boys I need to be sick that ass stank!
by McFisterson December 3, 2011
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Face crickets

Face crickets : That strange Facebook phenomenon which happens when you post the best, the funniest, the saddest, or the most profound status update ever, and receive no likes, no share, no comments and only "Face crickets" .
I announced my engagement on Facebook today, and got nothing but Face crickets.
by RSGarza64 August 25, 2013
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